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ALL MEN WANT TO KNOW - NINA BOURAOUI KARTONIERT...

'Intense  gorgeous  troubling  seductive - a novel that has to be surrendered to rather than
read' Sarah Waters AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERWINNER OF AN ENGLISH PEN TRANSLATES AWARD All Men
Want to Know traces Nina Bouraoui's blissful childhood in Algeria  a wild  sun-soaked paradise
with hazy summer afternoons spent swimming  diving  and driving across the desert. Her mother
is French  her father Algerian  when racial tensions begin to surface in their neighbourhood 
her mother suffers an unspeakable act of violence that forces the family to flee the country.
In Paris  eighteen-year-old Nina lives alone. It's the 1980s. Four nights a week she makes her
way to The Kat  a legendary gay nightclub  where she watches women from the sidelines  afraid
of her own desires  her sudden and intoxicating freedom. In her solitude  she starts to write -
and finds herself writing about her mother. All Men Want to Know is a haunting  lyrical
international bestseller about mothers and daughters  about shame and sexuality  about existing
between two cultures and belonging to neither. A phenomenon in France  this is a defining
portrait of womanhood from one of Europe's greatest living writers. 'Blown away by the power
and lyricism of All Men Want to Know. What a book. Read it' Niven Govinden  author of THIS
BRUTAL HOUSE 'Magnificent... a captivating autobiographical novel' Elle 'A tour de force' Le
Figaro'Haunting  spell-binding  luminous' Lire

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